This is the second volume of secret lectures delivered at the Voroshilov
General Staff Academy in the two-year course during 1973-75. It is a
translation based on notes and transcriptions made by an Afghan officer
attending the course, Colonel Ghulam Dastagir Wardak. As a continuation
of the basic overview lectures presented in the first volume, it rounds
out those lectures on strategy in a theater of military action. While
not a homogenous series, this volume presents valuable data in three
areas: two chapters dealing with the basic arms and services and the
High Command of the Soviet Armed Forces; two chapters on particular
types of combat support operations in strategic theater operations --
air defense, and offensive air assault landings, and three general kinds
of basic homeland support for theater operations -- military uses of
space, civil defense, and economic support of the Armed Forces. This
volume completes the coverage of general strategic and strategic support
activities (omitting only naval operations, for which the Afghan
colonel did not transcribe the lecture, and a lecture on
Marxism-Leninism and Soviet military affairs). Future volumes will cover
the full range of front (Army Group) and army-level operations in
detail.

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